La Decouverte du Monde: Cartographes et Cosmographes
La Fondation Macdonald Stewart, 1984. Binding: Paperback, Illustration: 18 full-colour plates, monochrome illustrations, Pages: 88 pp, Category: ; Book Bibliography & Reference Maps.
Books
Philip's Great World Atlas
London, England: George Philip Ltd., 1990. Binding: Hardcover with jacket, Illustration: 144 full page maps, Pages: 144 pp (plus 144 pp index), Category: ; Book Bibliography & Reference Maps.
America: Early Maps of the New World
Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1992. Binding: Hardcover with plastic-covered dust jacket, Notes: First published in German on the occasion of the exhibition "America -- Early Maps of the New World" held at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, 1992, Illustration: 90 full-colour and 96 duotone illustrations, Pages: 192 pp, Category: ;.....
America: Early Maps of the New World
Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1992. Binding: Hardcover with plastic-covered dust jacket, Notes: First published in German on the occasion of the exhibition "America -- Early Maps of the New World" held at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, 1992, Illustration: 90 full-colour and 96 duotone illustrations, Pages: 192 pp, Category: Book.....
America: Early Maps of the New World
Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1992. Binding: Hardcover with plastic-covered dust jacket, Notes: First published in German on the occasion of the exhibition "America -- Early Maps of the New World" held at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, 1992, Illustration: 90 full-colour and 96 duotone illustrations, Pages: 192 pp, Category: ;.....
Complete stories of Edgar Allan Poe
New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1966. Binding: contemporary full blue paper boards, title in gilt on flat spine, spine with gilt ruling and decorative gilt motifs, upper board with decorative gilt ruling and gilt central devices. , Notes: Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and.....
Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle
Grosset & Dunlap. 1928. Binding: Full green illustrated paper boards. Illustrated pasted and free endpapers. Top edges green. No dust jacket. , Notes: Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 – 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the genres of adventure, science fiction, and fantasy. Tarzan is.....
The Last Days of Pompeii
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company. c. 1834? Binding: contemporary blue cloth, title in white ink on upper board, flat spine, upper board with decorative blue rulings and decorative white ink flowers. , Notes: The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl.....
New Studies in Literature: New Edition
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1902. Binding: Contemporary full blue calf boards with gilt initials within straight gilt borders, spine in six compartments of gilt raised bands, gilt naval motifs, with red morocco label on two, board edges gilt and inner blind dentelles. Edges and endpapers marbled....
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
New York: Dodge Publishing Company. 1914. Binding: Full original brown suede covers. Title embossed in gilt design on upper. Brown pasted and free holographic endpapers. Top edges gilt. , Notes: Omar Khayyam (1048 – 1131) was a prominent Persian polymath, astronomer, historian, and poet. , Size: 12mo.(150 x 120 mm)......
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
London: Collins. 1947. Binding: Publisher’s full red cloth boards. Title in gilt on black label inside floral gilt border on upper. Title in gilt on black label on spine. Top edges red. , Notes: Edward Fitzgerald (1809 – 1883) was an English poet and writer. His most famous work is.....
A Literary History of Persia
United States, Maryland, Bethesda: Iranbooks Inc., 1997. Binding: Contemporary full red cloth, flat spine with gilt title and publisher’s device., Notes: A complete set of the important work of Prof. Edward G. Browne on the history of Persian literature. This book was first published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1902.....
Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings; Eugene Aram A Tale; Godolphin and Calderon the Courtier; Pelham or The Adventures of a Gentleman; The Caxtons A Family Picture; What Will He Do With It?; The Parisians; The Disowned; Night and Morning; Falkland The Pilgrims of the Rhine Pausanias, the Spartan; My Novel or Varieties in English Life (a three volume series in two books); Alice or the Mysteries; The Last of the Barons.
London: George Routledge and Sons. c.1887-1889. Binding: half light brown calf over red marbled paper boards, spine with five raised bands, spine decorated with decorative gilt motifs, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine, marbled upper and lower free end papers. , Notes: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton.....
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: J.F. Dove, c. 1823. Edition: New Edition, Binding: Contemporary full diced calf with gilt-tooled border, early 20th-century handsomely rebacked in six compartments of gilt-lined bands, gilt red morocco labels on two and four, gilt text on six, edges marbled, endpapers marbled. , Notes: Edward Gibbon was an English historian.....
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of his Life and Writings Composed by Himself.
London: A. Strahan, T. Cadell jr., & W. Davies, c. 1796. Edition: First edition, Binding: Contemporary full tree calf with gilt greek-tooled border, rebacked expertly in seven compartments of gilt-tooled bands and gilt floral motifs, gilt red and yellow morocco labels on two and five respectively. , Notes: During his.....
Natural History of the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
Houghton Mifflin Company, c. 1939. Binding: Original cloth boards with blind tooled lettering., Size: 4to, Volume: 2 Volumes, Category: Book Natural History. Binding: Original cloth boards with blind tooled lettering., Size: 4to, Volume: 2 Volumes, Category: Book Natural History.
Lawrence: The Story of His Life
London: Oxford University Press, c. 1935. Binding: Original brown cloth with title and illustration on cover. Text and illustration on spine. Top edge dyed red. , Notes: A book detailing the life of T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia, as he was known) with an introduction by his brother A.W......
The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments
London: Charles Knight & Co., 1839-41. Binding: Publisher’s grey cloth boards in half black morocco. Double blind rules on morocco edges. Spine with 5 slightly-raised bands, decorative gilt rolls, gilt lettering. All edges gilt. 3 volumes in uniform binding., Notes: Small quarto (245x153 mm). Edward William Lane (1801 – 1876).....
Complaint; or Night Thoughts.
Jones & Co., 1822. Binding: Full brown morocco boards. Matching upper and lower boards with elaborate gilt panelling of shell and floral motifs over diamond pattern in blind. Spine densely gilted with floral design, author name in gilt. Gilt pattern on board and spine edges. Gilt dentelles. Marbled paste-in and.....
The Real America in Romance
New York, Chicago: William H. Wise & Company. 1912 - 1914. Edition: Art Edition. , Binding: contemporary half black morocco over grey cloth boards, title in gilt on flat spine, spine with decorative gilt horizontal ruling and central compartment devices, marbled upper and lower endpapers, upper edges in gilt....
A Continent Takes Shape
Sydney, London: Collins, 1971. Binding: Publisher’s full grey cloth boards. Black pictorial stamp on upper. Gilt lettering on spine. Printed paste-on and free endpapers. With dust jacket, clipped., Size: Large 4to, Illustration: Illustrated in black-and-white and colour., Category: Book Bibliography & Reference Maps.
A Klondike Picnic. The Story of a Day.
New York, Chicago, Cincinnati. Benziger Brothers, 1898. Binding: Contemporary full green cloth with image of a tree and title in gilt. Flat spine with title in gilt, Size: 8vo, Pages: P. title, printer’s imprint, (1), blank, 5-160, advertisements (16)., Category: Book Geological, Minerals & Mining; Book Arctic & Antarctic. Binding.....
Romola.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz. 1863. Binding: white vellum elaborately decorated in gold and red, densely gilt spine, gilt lettered red morocco label, all page edges stained in red, elaborately marbled endpapers,, Notes: A fine decorative contemporary vellum binding. , Size: 16mo, Illustration: illustrated with 66 original tipped in albumen photos of.....
Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition In Search Of Sir John Franklin, 1853, ’54, ‘55
Childs and Peterson, c.1856. Edition: First Edition, Binding: Full Publisher’s Green Cloth with blind ornaments and blind ship design on boards. Gilt title on spine, Notes: Elisha Kent Kane (1820 – 1857) was an American explorer, and a medical officer in the United States Navy during the first half of.....
Tributes. (Signed)
Manchester: Carcanet Press. 1989. Edition: First Edition., Binding: Colour-illustrated wraps., Notes: Signed and inscribed by Jennings on half-title: “To , With Happy memories of Stratford.” , Size: 8vo.(215x135 mm), Category: Book Literature;.